Simon Travaglia Quotes

The greatest barrier to someone achieving their potential is their denial of it.

Simon Travaglia

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• I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'

  

  Karen Robards
  • Like
  • Thought
  • Intellectual

• Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Book
  • Sometimes
  • Finish

• We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Eyes
  • Religion

• Unfortunately we - and I'm speaking not for Latin America but for Mexico because that's where I come from - we still, I think, are a little bit macho. Not that we only live in a macho world, but we also think as a macho world; even the women, you know? The women in Mexico, because that's the way we were raised.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • World
  • Live
  • Women

• I could actually be somebody that, if you showed me new gun-control legislation could help solve this problem, I might actually be able to support something like that.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Help
  • Control
  • Support

• When you're editor-in-chief of a big magazine, you cannot be a cover girl for MAC; you cannot be the face of Givenchy - of course you can't; it's doesn't go with the job.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Job
  • Girl
  • Face

• 'Ray Donovan' is very dark and very serious. As actors will tell you, the darker and more serious the material, the more jokes that go around set. It's a counterbalance.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • You
  • Dark
  • Serious

• A-bop-bop-a-loom-op-a-lop-bop-boom.

  

  Little Richard
  • Boom
  • Loom
  • Bop

• In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Great
  • Fun
  • Magician

• The barriers between reality and fiction are softer than we think; a bit like a frozen lake. Hundreds of people can walk across it, but then one evening a thin spot develops and someone falls through; the hole is frozen over by the following morning.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Reality
  • Fiction
  • Barriers

• Opposition can be useful. Every opposition movement is good and useful if it acts within the law... If there are people who act outside the law, then the state must use legal means to impose law in the interests of the majority. That's the way it's done in the U.S. and that's the way it's done in Russia.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • People
  • Done
  • Mean

• Sometimes something you thought wouldn't really be as big as it was blows up into something else.

  

  J. H. Wyman
  • Sometimes
  • Thought
  • Something

• To concern yourself with surface political conflicts is to make the mistake of the bull in the ring, you are charging the cloth. That is what politics is for, to teach you the cloth. Just as the bullfighter teaches the bull, teaches him to follow, obey the cloth.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Political
  • Mistake
  • Teach

• Writing a simple melody can take weeks to get it right where I want it, but I do quite enjoy it.

  

  Trevor Rabin Cinema
  • Enjoy
  • Melody

• It's true we don't know what we've got until its gone, but we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Love
  • Pain
  • Pleasure

• Great potential for personal empowerment can be found in attending to our awareness of global problems and to our understanding of how they connect with each other and with our personal lives. The process of naming the danger, saying aloud that the threats to life on earth are real, moves us from the numbness of denial to the aliveness that makes action possible.

  

  Sarah Connor
  • Real
  • Earth
  • Problem

• America's 'social contract' is equal opportunity... yet we have failed in achieving that seminal goal.

  

  George Kaiser
  • Social
  • Contract
  • Achieving

• Mama gives you money for Sunday school, you trade yours for candy after church is through.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • School
  • Money
  • Church

• Live every day as if it's going to be your last, and one day, you'll be right.

  

  Malachy McCourt
  • Live
  • Day
  • Everyday

• The firmest purpose of a woman's heart to well-timed, artful flattery may yield.

  

  George Lillo
  • Purpose
  • Flattery
  • Yield

• The greatest barrier to someone achieving their potential is their denial of it.

  

  Simon Travaglia
  • Denial
  • Achieving
  • Barrier